Prejudice and Racism

Introduction

This paper is based on the concept of prejudices and racism and their differences. This report focus completely on what is doing the right thing and why things happen based the current situation of the society. This report is based on the book 'Zeitoun' by Dave Eggers, which is focusing and putting lights on the reality and showing the darker side of life.

Pure Race vs. Prejudice

It appears for the first time in England to the seventeenth century. North Americans adopt this term in their scientific writings in the late eighteenth century. Under the influence of scientists of the nineteenth century, it spreads and is popular since it is estimated that they are bearers of truth. At that time, the racist ideology helps to explain the political and economic conflicts across the globe and to legitimize the dominant position of British capitalism in the global economic system. Racism is a broad phenomenon, influential in many ethno-racial groups. The white population does not have a monopoly.

By the mid-nineteenth century, there is general agreement on the fact that we can divide the population of the world into a variety of breeds made up of groups of people sharing similar phenotypic attributes such as color and texture hair. This process of cataloging the races called pure racism, and it is a prerequisite for the emergence of racism as an ideology. In basic words, pure racism is based on an ideology that the working assumption of the existence of human races, considers that some races are inherently superior to others. This ideology can lead to an attitude of hostility or sympathy systematically with respect to a category of people (Binder, p. 843-856).

Whereas, Prejudice is typically conceptualized as an attitude that, like other attitudes, has a cognitive component (e.g., beliefs about a target group), an affective component (e.g., dislike), and a cognitive component (e.g., a behavioral predisposition to behave negatively toward the target group). In his seminal volume, The Nature of Prejudice, defined prejudice as an antipathy based on faulty and inflexible generalization. It may be felt or expressed. It may be directed toward a group as a whole or an individual because he is a member of that group'. Most researchers have continued to define prejudice as a dismissive attitude (i.e., an antipathy).

There are a number of steps that lead to active discrimination, violence and even ethnic cleansing and genocide. Categorization generalizes and put our experiences into categories that facilitate the way we manage the world around us. We label and divide people and groups. When we label people, it is tempting to use stereotypes. A stereotype is judgments based on insufficient data. There are positive and negative stereotypes, but if we create a negative stereotype and that exacerbates it becomes dangerous and can lead to Prejudice: It consists of ideas based on a range of emotions and insufficient facts, prejudice is often made without any foundation, and yet it is accepted without question, there is often contrasting between us and them. Prejudice can ...